Out of the hundreds of miles I've logged on my TI, only around 200 yards of that distance has been in water deep enough to turtle in. I would estimate that the average depth of all my travels to be around 6-8 feet.

I often worry about the top of the sail and/or mast getting damaged if it gets dragged across the bottom of the body of water I happen to be sailing in. After a pitchpole experience years ago with a Cat that took great effort to free the mast from the mud, I worry about the mast getting stuck in the bottom too.

There is a lot of innovative people that frequent these forums, have any of you given thought to fabricating a mast float for the Islands?

It happened to arno a couple of years ago: viewtopic.php?f=70&t=18539&p=91062&hilit=mast#p91062That was in an AI, in surf. I don't recall anyone has reported it happening in a TI. I guess the lesson is: If you must take them in the surf, take the mast down and bungee it to the akas.